Facilities and Equipment
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is located in the McCord Building. The department has seven dedicated lecture rooms and six dedicated laboratories within the the building for use by students.
Equipment
Equipment includes:
- 30 Dell computers, scanners, and laser and color printers
- Multiple HP Designjet large format plotters and scanners
- ESRI ArcGIS Pro
- Google Earth Engine
- RStudio
- Python
- AquaChem
- Visual MODFlow
- AquiferTest
- BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point & Non-point Sources)
- PLOAD (Pollutant Load Model)
- SWAT (Soil & Water Assessment Tool)
- HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran)
- SigmaPlot
- RStudio
Equipment includes:
- Hitachi model TM-1000 SEM
- EDS-elemental analysis
- Digital photography
- Dell computer
Equipment includes:
- 15 Olympus polarizing petrographic microscopes
- Nikon macroscope
- Refelcted light microscope
- Digital microscope camera and supporting Dell computer
- Video microscope camera and monitor
- Complete suite of petrographic thin-sections for mineralogy; and sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous petrography
- Dell computer and printer
Equipment includes:
- Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. model GSSI SR-20 GPR
- Cart, computer and analysis software
Equipment includes:
- RadStar Model RS300 Continuous Radon Monitor unit
Equipment includes:
- Armfield Stream Flume
- Price digital current meter
- Digital water level meter
- Equipment for soil and regolith testing of the Atterburg limits of plasticity
Equipment includes:
- Ingram Thin-Section Cut-Off Saw (for 2”x3” and 1”x2” thin-sections)
- Ingram Thin-Section Grinder (for 2”x3” and 1”x2” thin-sections)
- 3 lapidary wheels
- 18” oil-based rock saw
- 8” water-based rock saw
- Rock Crusher
- Disk Mill (grinds rock into fine powder)
- Wilfey Table (separates grains of rock by density)
- Ro-Tap Testing Sieve Shaker
- Air Abrasive Machine
- MakerBot Replicator +- 3D printer
- 3D Laser Scanner
Equipment includes:
- Dell computers
- Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station
- Hurricane Tracking Maps
- Sling Psychrometers
- Mannix Instruments handheld anemometers and temperature instruments
- Control Company electronic Traceable® Hygrometer, Thermometer and Dew Point instruments
Equipment includes:
- Dell computers
- MeasureJ2X Software
- Velmex Measuring System (capable of measuring to 0.001mm)
- WinDendro and CooRecorder
- Hagloff Increment Bores (16”-24”)
- Hagloff Laser Vertex Hypsometer
- Field Tapes (100’ and 165’) and Diameter Tapes (5m and 10m)
- Stihl 460 Chainsaw with 28" bar (with full complement of safety equipment)
- Garmin GPS Units
- Makita 4x24 Belt Sander (with sand paper grits ranging from 50 to 400)
- Meiji EMZ-8T Trinocular Microscope (with boom stand and fiber optic light source
Equipment includes:
- Binocular microscopes
- Binocular macroscope
- Air abrasive and pneumatic airscribe for fossil preparation
- Wet laboratory facilities for acid preparation
- GPS units
- DJI Drones
- Brunton compasses
- Topcon GPT-300W Series Reflectorless Total Station for surveying
- Measuring tapes
- Field belts, rock hammers, acid bottles and holders